At the ripe old age of thirty-two, former wild child Isabel "Izzy" Spellman has finally agreed to take over the family business. And the transition won't be a smooth one.
Spellmans #4
Simon & Schuster
March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Featuring: Izzy Spellman
400 pages ISBN: 1416593403 EAN: 9781416593409 Hardcover Add to Wish List
First among her priorities as head of Spellman
Investigations is to dig up some dirt on the competition,
slippery ex-cop Rick Harkey -- a task she may enjoy a little
too much. Next, faced with a baffling missing-persons case
at the home of an aging millionaire, Izzy hires an actor
friend, Len, to infiltrate the mansion as an undercover
butler -- a role he may enjoy a little much.
Meanwhile,
Izzy is being blackmailed by her mother (photographic
evidence of Prom Night 1994) to commit to regular blind
dates with promising professionals -- an arrangement that
doesn't thrill Connor, an Irish bartender on the brink of
becoming Ex-boyfriend #12.
At Spellman headquarters, it's
business as unusual. Doorknobs and light fixtures are
disappearing every day, Mom's been spotted crying in the
pantry, and a series of increasingly demanding Spellman
Rules (Rule #27: No Speaking Today) can't quite hold the
family together. Izzy also has to decipher weekly "phone
calls from the edge" from her octogenarian lawyer, Morty, as
well as Detective Henry Stone's mysterious interest in
rekindling their relationsh...well, whatever it was.
Just
when it looks like things can't go more haywire, little
sister Rae's internship researching pro bono legal cases
leads the youngest Spellman to launch a grassroots campaign
that could spring an innocent man from jail -- or land Rae
in it.
The Spellmans Strike Again is hands down the
most hilarious, thrilling, and moving book in this
bestselling, award-nominated series. And it proves beyond a
reasonable doubt that Isabel Spellman, no matter how much
she matures, will never be able to follow Rule #1: Act Normal.